Henry Blackburn, M.D.
Professor Emeritus
M.D. in Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
M.S. in Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
B.S. University of Miami, Miami, FL
Teaches:
- Guest lectures in the Clinical Research Program (PubH 6501 and PubH 6348),and serves as editor and mentor for those classes and their scientific writing.
Research Interests:
Cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention and its history; Nutrition and chronic disease; Evolution and culture in mass disease; Epidemiology and prevention in public policy
>>> Research Projects
Recent Publications:
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Preventing Heart Attack and Stroke. A History of Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology.2007. A website at: http://www.epi.umn/cvdepi/index.html
It Isn't Always Fun, Memoir of a Different Sort of Medical Life. Vol. II. 1972-2002. (available from author)
If it Isn't Fun. Memoir of a Different Sort of Medical Life. Vol. I. 1942-1972. 2001 (available from author)
Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease. Diet, Lifestyle and Risk Factors in the Seven Countries Study. Daan Kromhout, Alessandro Menotti, Henry Blackburn. Brouwer, The Netherlands, 2002.
Blackburn H. Haines J. Cardiovascular diseases and their prevention in Minnesota. Minnesota Medicine. 2003; 86(5): 42-8, 2003.
Blackburn H. The slavery hypothesis of hypertension among African Americans. Epidemiology, 2003;14: 118-119.
Blackburn H. On the Trail of Heart Attacks in Seven Countries, 1995 (available from author).
Blackburn H, Epstein FH. History of the Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, American Heart Association: The pursuit of epidemiology within the American Heart Association: Prehistory and early organization. Circulation 4:1253-1262, 1995. |
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Professional Experience:
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Professor and Director, 1983-1990; Mayo Professor of Public Health, 1990-1996 (Emeritus), Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota.
Director, 1972-1983, Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota 1972-present.
Associate Professor, 1961-1968; Professor, 1968-present;
Research Fellow, 1956-1958; Assistant Professor, 1958-1961;
Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Ancker Hospital, St Paul, MN, 1956.
Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, 1953-1956;
Medical Officer, US Public Health Service Displaced Persons Program, Salzburg, Austria, 1950-1953;
Resident, American Hospital of Paris, 1949-1950;
Methodist Medical Missions, Holguin, Cuba, 1949;
Intern, Northwestern Wesley Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL. 1948-1949. |
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Honors:
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Alexander Langmuir Lecture in Epidemiology; American Epidemiological
Society, 2001
Doctor of Science, honoris causa, Tulane University, 1999
Outstanding Alumnus, Tulane University School of Medicine, 1994
Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons (Glasgow), 1994
Research Achievement Award, American Heart Association, 1992.
Pioneer Award, Minnesota Department of Health, 1992. |
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Phone:(612) 626-9396
Home office: 763-377-0304
Or: Nola Fortner at 612-626-8816
Email: black002 @umn.edu
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Web Link: http://www.epi.umn.edu/cvdepi/index.html
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